As the eldest living son of the sovereign, Charles automatically gained several titles ( including Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay ), and subsequently was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in November 1616.

Yonten Gyatso ( 1589 – 1616 ), the 4th Dalai Lama, and a non-Tibetan, was the grandson of Altan Khan.

His conduct of affairs having displeased the French king, he was recalled from his post by Oldenbarneveldt in 1616.

The first report of his discovery of an open channel south of Tierra del Fuego was written after the 1618 publication of the voyage of Willem Schouten and Jacob le Maire around Cape Horn in 1616.

The earliest such was that in Ben Jonson's creation in Christmas his Masque dating from December 1616, in which Christmas appears " attir'd in round Hose, long Stockings, a close Doublet, a high crownd Hat with a Broach, a long thin beard, a Truncheon, little Ruffes, white shoes, his Scarffes, and Garters tyed crosse ", and announces " Why Gentlemen, doe you know what you doe?

It is, indeed, not improbable that it was as a result of this war that Lord Ochiltree's Committee formed the Statutes of Iona in 1609 and the Regulations for the Chiefs in 1616 was induced to insert a clause in the Statutes of Iona by which ' marriages contracted for several years ' were prohibited ; and any who might disregard this regulation were to be ' punished as fornicators '".

Though Oxford died in 1604 before approximately 12 of the plays were written according to the generally-accepted chronology, Oxfordians say that regular publication of new, " newly augmented ", and " corrected " Shakespeare plays stopped with Oxford's death in 1604, and they interpret certain written references to Shakespeare between 1604 and 1616 to mean that the writer was dead.

Sobran notes that the cypress tree was a symbol of mourning and says that Barksted was specifically writing of Shakespeare in the past tense (" His song was worthy ") — after Oxford's death in 1604, but prior to Shakespeare's death in 1616.

The Baroque bell tower was built in 1616, the cups being finished in 1753.

In 1616, the Roman Inquisition's consultants gave their assessment of the proposition that the Sun is immobile and at the center of the universe and that the Earth moves around it, judging both to be " foolish and absurd in philosophy " and that the first was " formally heretical " while the second was " at least erroneous in faith ".

In 1616, it is known that he was appointed by George Abbot to the vicarage of Cranbrook in Kent.

In the Galileo affair, the acceptance, from 1616 to 1757, of the Greek geocentric model ( Ptolemaic system ) by the Roman Catholic Church, and its consequent opposition to heliocentrism, was first called into question by the Catholic cleric Copernicus, and subsequently disproved conclusively by Galileo, who was persecuted for his minority view.

The first time the Tongan people encountered Europeans was in 1616 when the Dutch vessel Eendracht made a short visit to the islands to trade.

The very existence of Tierra del Fuego as one or more islands and not as part of Terra Australis was first inferred by Francisco de Hoces in 1525, then by Francis Drake in 1578 and in 1616 by a Dutch VOC expedition who named Cape Horn.

The first European to visit Western Australia was the Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog, who visited the Western Australian coast in 1616.

The first European to visit Western Australia was a Dutch explorer, Dirk Hartog who on 25 October 1616 landed at what is now known as Cape Inscription, Dirk Hartog Island.

Year 1616 ( MDCXVI ) was a leap year starting on Friday ( link will display full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

( Ben Jonson received a royal pension of 100 marks in 1616, causing some historians to identify him as England's first Poet Laureate, even though John Fletcher was more popular ).

The theocratic government was founded by an expatriate Drukpa monk, Ngawang Namgyal, who arrived in Bhutan in 1616 seeking freedom from the domination of the Gelugpa subsect led by the Dalai Lama ( Ocean Lama ) in Lhasa.

It was not until 1616, the year of Shakespeare's death, that Ben Jonson defied convention by issuing a folio collection of his own plays and poems.

He was appointed vicar of St Thomas ' Church in Oxford in 1616, and in 1630 he was also made the rector of Segrave, Leicester.

He was appointed Field Marshal in 1616, Privy Councilor in 1617, Governor General of Ingria in 1617 and Lord High Admiral in 1620.

He then gained employment with the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) in 1616, and was appointed master of a ship ( the Eendracht, meaning " Concord " or " Unity ") in a fleet voyaging from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies.

The Remembrancer was appointed for life, and qualified to appoint a deputy, the first of whom, John West, was appointed by Sir Christopher Hatton in 1616.

He traveled to London with his parents in 1616, and remained there, after the death of his mother, in the care of his appointed Guardian, Sir Lewis Stukley, and later his father's brother, Henry Rolfe ..

Returning in 1613 to Heidelberg, after the marriage of the elector with Princess Elizabeth of England, he was appointed professor of dogmatics, and in 1616 director of the theological department in the Collegium Sapientiae.

On 14 July 1616 there was some talk of making him President of Wales, and on 8 November 1617 he was appointed to receive ambassadors from Muscovy then in England.

In 1611, at Great Burstead, he was appointed a churchwarden but in 1612, he may have likely followed Puritan religious philosophy as both he and his wife refused to kneel for holy communion. In 1616 / 17, Christopher Martin invested 25 £ for the transportation of two persons to Virginia with Ralph Hamor.

In 1613 John Jourdain was appointed as Chief Factor there, holding the administrative post until 1616 ( other than for a few months during 1615, when Thomas Elkington was Chief Factor ); he was succeeded in 1616 by George Berkley, but from 1617 until 1630 the factory was under a chosen President.

He was admitted an Advocate in 1587, a Lord of Session in 1592, appointed Lord Advocate in 1596, Lord Clerk Register in 1612, and in 1616 became Lord President of the Court of Session.

In 1616 the controversial reformer William Laud was appointed Dean of Gloucester.

On 24 January 1616 he was collated to the prebend of St. Pancras in St. Paul's Cathedral, receiving at the same time the office of penitentiary or confessor in the cathedral, together with the rectory and patronage of Chigwell, Essex.

In 1616 they were captured by Native Americans near the confluence of the Schuykill River and Delaware River, south of Easton, Pennsylvania.

Production methods were introduced to Chōshi in 1616 from Settsu Province, and later from Kii Province, both near the Seto Inland Sea.

Alexander Whitaker ( 1585 – 1616 ) was a Christian theologian who settled in North America in Virginia Colony in 1611 and established two churches near the Jamestown colony, and was known as " The Apostle of Virginia " by contemporaries.

In 1616, Surabaya tried to attack Mataram but this army was crushed by Sultan Agung's forces in Siwalan, Pajang ( near Solo ).

The coastal city of Lasem, near Rembang, was conquered in 1616 and Pasuruan, south-east of Surabaya, was taken in 1617.

The oak tree was part of a forest ( which no longer exists ), and a cutting from it was planted near the village in 1616.

Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi ( 1550 – 1625 ), of Janów ( near Lublin, Poland ), was the author of the Tseno Ureno, sometimes called the " Women's Bible ", a 1616 Yiddish-language prose work whose structure parallels the weekly portions of the Pentateuch and Haftorahs used in Shabbat services.

The Action of 29 April 1616 took place near Euboea when a Tuscan galley force defeated a similar Turkish force.

In 1616 they were captured by Native Americans near the confluence of the Schuykill River and Delaware River, south of what is now Easton, Pennsylvania.

In 1616, Surabaya attempted to attack Mataram in retaliation, but absent its allies the Surabaya army was crushed by Sultan Agung's forces in Siwalan, Pajang ( near Surakarta ).

The coastal city of Lasem, near Rembang, was conquered in 1616, and Pasuruan, south-east of Surabaya, was taken in 1617.

In October 1616, he was transported to the desolate fortress Kajaneborg at Finland near the Russian border, where he was harshly treated by its commander Erik Hara.